A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

CINERES and RELIQUIAE,

the Ashes and Remnants of the Bodies burnt at Rome. When a Body was burnt, the Mother, Wife, Children, or other Relations of the Dead, cloathing themselves in Mourning, ga∣thered the Ashes and Bones that were not consumed by the Fire. They began it by in∣••ocating the Dii Manes and the Soul of the Deceased, praying him to accept that pious Duty which they were about to pay him, then washing their Hands and pouring Milk and Wine upon the Fire, they gathered the Ashes and Bones and sprinkled them with Wine and Milk. The first Bone which they gathered was called Os rejectum, according to Va••••o, or exceptum, because it was made use of to finish the Remainder of the Funerals. The Reliques being thus sprinkled, they put them into an Ʋrn made of different Materials and wept over it; they catched their Tears in small Glasses, called Lacrymatoria, which they put at the Bot∣tom of the Urn, then the Priest sprinkled the Urn and all present to purifie them with a Branch of Rosemary, Laurel or Olive, (as Ae∣neas did at the Funeral of the Trumpeter Mi∣senus) and dismissed the Assembly with these words, I licet, you may go, or depart.

Here we might observe the Difficulty, how the Ashes and Bones of the Dead could be ga∣thered when they were mixed with so many Animals and other Things, which were burnt with the Body, but we may find this Difficulty cleared under the Word Cadaver.